Comments on: Anti-piracy enforcers claiming to represent Microsoft used to shut down dissident media in former USSRhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 30 Mar 2015 20:24:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: 5ynichttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761344
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761344Off topic (beg your indulgence this once!): Re Chrs#4 – I’ve asked lawyer friends and drawn a blank on this one… Can any of you clever BB regulars please enlighten me: Is there a technical term (or term of art) for the tactic of making common practices illegal so that you can later arrest whomever you want?
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-935206
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-935206Hello linux??? Why cant these journalists use Linux if they cannot afford to pay for Windows? How hard can it be? They would rather risk it all with Mr. Pirated Windows than to use Linux which is freeware 100% Linux have more than 100,000 available software within its repositories that I am sure can meet every one of these people’s needs.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-763697
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-763697this is why i dont use microsoft products anymore.
]]>By: highlyverbalhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761406
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761406“any suggestion that Microsoft approved or supported this police action is inaccurate.”

Well this is not strictly true.

Certainly Microsoft is in favor of an IP enforcement regime that has these kinds of powers. And I don’t remember any Microsoft proposals for checks on these powers? Sanctions for their abuse? So they definitely approve/support at a regime level. Everyone said that this is what it would entail!

The only thing that they can honestly claim here is that person x was not representing them in an investigative capacity in this matter.

]]>By: TheAntipodeanhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761407
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761407Time to move to Open Office on Linux Mint.
]]>By: Pantographhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761413
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761413Yeah but downloading Open Source is supporting Communism, and they’ve had too much of that already in the past century.
]]>By: Wuss Brillishttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761415
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761415.. and not enough in the 21st.
]]>By: holtthttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761437
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761437My vote for putting the updates at the top of the article not the bottom.
]]>By: Wuss Brillishttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761439
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761439+1
]]>By: Frenetichttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761456
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761456@highlyverbal: That’s pretty much what I was going to say.

]]>By: Frenetichttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761465
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761465You think that will stop the police from seizing your computer under suspicion of (air quotes) “copyright infringement”?
]]>By: Danny O'Brienhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761214
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761214Just to be clear, Microsoft says they knew nothing about this raid. Here’s their statement on the matter:
â€œThe raid against Stan Media was initiated by the Kyrgyz police without any involvement from any Microsoft employees or anyone working on Microsoftâ€™s behalf. The identified local lawyer has been representing Microsoft in a few enforcement actions targeting resellers of pirated software, but at this time he was asked to assist the police to identify possible unlicensed software in the role of a technical specialist from the local â€˜Association of Right Holders of Intellectual Property Protectionâ€™. No claims were filed on Microsoftâ€™s behalf and any suggestion that Microsoft approved or supported this police action is inaccurate.â€

]]>By: dculbersonhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761222
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761222Sounds like someone needs some concrete and lead computer cases. Nothing like 30,000 pounds of ballast to keep a computer network in place.
]]>By: Danny O'Brienhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-761230
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-761230(and yes, Internet Advocacy Coordinator at the Committee to Protect journalists is my new gig, though I was surprised as anyone that IP issues would crop up so quickly. I was somewhat hoping to give that side of things a rest after working on them so long at EFF…)

]]>By: rmstallmanhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html#comment-763793
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-763793I was disappointed that the article uses the propaganda terms
“pirated” and “Intellectual Property”. The latter term is so
misleading that even quoting a name in which it appears spreads
confusion if you don’t deconstruct the term.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html for more information.

Also, to say that “software piracy” is a “legitimate problem”
whitewashes the real problem: proprietary software which forbid
redistribution.

Brazil used unauthorized copies of software as an excuse in the 90s to
arrest activists of the landless rural workers’ movement. In that
case, the copies really were unauthorized, but that didn’t alter the
effect. To protect themselves, they moved to GNU/Linux. Everyone
else should do that too.